It is, in fact, the effort to recall that offers the major opportunity to "геmember forgetting," to anticipate the words of Augustine. Searching for a memory indeed attests to one of the major finalities of the act of remembering, namely, struggling against forgetting, wresting a few scraps of memory from the "rapacity" of time (Augustine dixit), from "sinking" into oblivion (oubli). It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget ... to remember.

— Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricœur (Page 30)